---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 970"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "970"
heading: "Criminal forfeitures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/970"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter II — Import and Export"
---

# §970. Criminal forfeitures


[Section 853 of this title](/usc/21/853.md), relating to criminal forfeitures, shall apply in every respect to a violation of this subchapter punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–513, title III, § 1017, as added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 307, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2051.)